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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Comedy and tragedy are both aspects of the same experience of _______.
(a) Understanding
(b) Growth
(c) Living
(d) Movement

2. Which section deals with the theories about the importance and/or presence of myth in human culture, society, and individual experience?
(a) The Power of Myth
(b) Myth and Society
(c) Myth and Dreams
(d) The Monomyth

3. What is the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible?
(a) Lust
(b) Rapture
(c) Comedy
(d) Joy

4. What joins at this central area as described in #28?
(a) Every animal
(b) Four directions
(c) Four winds
(d) All the colors of the wind

5. What is the spiritual city, and thus center for those who practice the Muslim faith?
(a) The city of their mosque
(b) Babylon
(c) Their city of birth
(d) Mecca

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the center, a source from which all truth flows?

2. What does Campbell say are used to signify and to assist in the breaking of the attachment to one's parent?

3. What does Campbell say all cities build in order to represent the idea of this central area?

4. What is a narrative form anchored in the pain and fear of that ultimate truth of death?

5. _________ thus asserts that all reality emerges from a transcendent, universal, sub-conscious and ultimately unknowable truth.

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